Ambarish Goswami
I am a Principal System Analyst at Intuitive Surgical, California, USA (since May 2016).
e_mail: ambarish(AT)ambarish(DOT)com
Current Research topics
Past positions held: 9/1993-5/2002
- 7/99- 5/02: I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at
Discreet, a division
of Autodesk,
(the developer of AutoCAD). I was part of the core
development team of
3D Studio MAX, the best-selling 3D animation software. My main contributions were
to the kinematics (Spline IK), constraints and dynamics modules.
- 6/98-6/99: IRCS (Institute
of Research in Cognitive Science) Postdoctoral
Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, primarily associated
with the
Center
for Human Modeling and Simulation in the
Department of Computer
and Information Science.
- Consultant at Katrix, Princeton, New Jersey.
- 1/98-5/98: Visiting Research Professor,
General Engineering Department and Coordinated
Science Laboratory at The University of
Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
- 9/94-12/97: Charge-de Recherche (Research Officer, Member of the
Permanent Scientific Staff),
Project BIP (in 2003 BIP
project mutated to two different projects, BIPOP and POP ART),
INRIA
Rhone-Alpes,
Grenoble (beautiful place!), France.
- 6/95-7/95: Visiting Researcher, Mechanical Engineering
Department
at The Ohio State University
- I worked with
Ken Waldron, who has since moved to Stanford University.
- 9/93-9/94: Post-Doctoral Fellow,
INRIA, France.
- I worked with
Bernard Espiau, who is now the director of INRIA Rhone-Alpes.
Past Research topics (1993-2007)
Research topics during graduate studies
Education:
Seminars and presentations:
- ICRA 2014: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hongkong, China, May, 2014
- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, India, December, 2013
- International Human-Centered Robotics Symposium, HuCeRo-2013, University of Cincinnati, November, 2013
- ASME Santa Clara Valley Section Technical Dinner Talk, Menlo Park, July, 2013
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), New York, December, 2012
- Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Sung-Hee Lee Lab), Gwangju, Korea, September, 2012
- Seoul National University (Frank Park Lab), Seoul, Korea, September, 2012
- AVEC'12: The 11th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control, Seoul, Korea, September, 2012
- University of Southern California (Stefan Schaal Lab), Los Angeles, April, 2012
- ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC), Arlington, VA, October, 2011
- ASME IDETC Conference (8th International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control (MSNDC)), Washington DC, August 31, 2011
- New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, August 24, 2011
- University of Texas at Dallas, TX, August 19, 2011
- JPL, NASA, Pasadena, CA, August 17, 2011
- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 2, 2011
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moneterrey, CA, March 16, 2011
- Umea University, Umea, Sweden, March 1, 2011
- University of California at Riverside, CS Colloquia, January 21, 2011
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots, Taipei, Taiwan, October 18-22, 2010
- University of California at Merced, EECS Seminar, October 8, 2010
- JAIST Summer School on Locomotive and Cooperative Robotic Systems, Kanazawa, Japan, August 22-26, 2010
- Dynamic Walking 2010, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, July 8-11, 2010
- Digital Human Research Lab, AIST, Tokyo, Japan, May 21, 2010
- ISI Lab (Kuniyoshi and Harada), University of Tokyo, Japan, May 21, 2010
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 3-8, 2010
- Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Dec 11, 2009
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009
- Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Kolkata, India, December, 2008
- Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, December, 2008
- Humanoids, Daejeon, Korea, December 1-2, 2008
- IEEE/RSJ IROS, Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008
- Invited Speaker at Cognitive Animtaion Workshop, Yosemite, June 5, 2008
- Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, August 7, 2007
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Rome, Italy, April 10-14, 2007
Publications
List of co-authors (Advisors, mentors, students, interns)
Over the years I have had the priviledge to work with a number of gifted
researchers. The following is an alphabetical list of people with whom I
have had publications in the last 3 years.
- Muhammad Abdallah, General Motors, Houston, TX
- Gabriel Aguirre-Ollinger, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Norm Badler, Computer and Information Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
- Tomas de Boer, Delft University, Netherlands
- James Bosnik, Mallett Technology
- Bernard Brogliato, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
- Darwin G. Caldwell, Division Director, Advanced Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy
- Carlos Canudas de Wit, CNRS Département d'Automatique de Grenoble, France
- Jimmy Chiu, Honda Research Institute, USA
- Ed Colgate, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
- Anirban Dutta, LIRMM, Monpellier, France
- Bernard Espiau, INRIA Rohone-Alpes, France
- Michael Gienger, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany
- Hugh Herr, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT CSAIL
- Vinutha Kallem, SRI International, Princeton, USA
- Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore, India
- Ahmed Keramane
- Twan Koolen, MIT
- Sung-Hee Lee, Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, Korea
- Dimitris Metaxas, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University
- Federico Moro, Fellow-PhD, ADVR / Humanoids & Human Centred Mechatronics, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy
- Umashankar Nagarajan, Carnegie-Mellon University
- David Orin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio State University
- Michael Peshkin, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University,
- Marko B Popovic, The MIT Media Lab
- Jerry Pratt, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
- Arthur Quaid
- John Rebula, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
- Amit Sanyal, New Mexicao State University, Las Cruces, NM
- Benoit Thuilot, LASMEA laboratory of the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Senior Researcher
ADVR / Humanoids & Human Centred Mechatronics, Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy
- Ken Waldron, Stanford University
- Seung-kook Yun, Honda Research Institute USA
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